IT'S BEEN AGES SINCE the last time she got sick. So, to be in bed with a fever, for three days, isn't something she enjoys. The medicine helps a little, but every time they think she's getting better, it comes back. It's not completely bad though – being home for three days, means three days of not seeing Heath, of not seeing Lana, and it all translates to pretty much a break, despite all the ache the fever is giving her.
Her friends, Elijah, and her mom come to visit every day, so she really has it all solved. If only it could stay like that; not going to school, but being able to see her friends, have Mack bring her the homework, spend all day in bed with her dad coddling her, watching movies with Oreo, and so on. But she knows it'll end; she can feel it like the fever dying down and ho
